Wolfson College (University of Cambridge) seeks to appoint a one-year fixed-term College Teaching Officer in English, from 1 October 2020 until 30 September 2021 as a replacement for Dr Michael Hrebeniak, who has been awarded a twelve-month Leverhulme Research Fellowship. The successful candidate will be expected to direct studies in English for a lively cohort […]
Continue ReadingNews
Dr Christopher Tilmouth contributes to Radio 4’s ‘The New Anatomy of Melancholy’
Christopher Tilmouth will be a contributor to the final episode of Radio 4’s series on Robert Burton’s ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ today at 1.45pm. Link to ‘The New Anatomy of Melancholy’.
Continue ReadingDr Lisa Mullen awarded the Oxford University PGCert in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education Portfolio Prize
The portfolio prize is awarded to the participant in each cohort scoring the highest grade in their teaching portfolio. The Faculty warmly congratulates Lisa.
Continue ReadingFitzwilliam College, Cambridge invites applications for a one-year fixed-term post as Isaac Newton Trust Teaching Associate in English with effect from 1 October 2020
The successful candidate will be required to provide 200 hours of small-group teaching in Cambridge for undergraduates studying for the English Tripos (across 23 teaching weeks) and to take the role of Director of Studies for some or all of the College’s undergraduate students of English, participating in admissions, outreach and enrichment activities. Preference will […]
Continue ReadingDr Michael D. Hurley takes over as co-editor of The Hopkins Quarterly – latest issue just published
Dr Michael D. Hurley and Dr Stephen Tardif (St Michael’s College, University of Toronto) have taken over as co-editors of The Hopkins Quarterly, an international journal of critical, scholarly, and appreciative responses to the lives and works of Gerard M. Hopkins, S.J., and his circle. Founded in 1974, the journal publishes academic articles and book […]
Continue ReadingDr Christopher Tilmouth contributes to Radio 4’s ‘The New Anatomy of Melancholy’
Christopher Tilmouth will be a contributor to Radio 4’s new 12-part series on Robert Burton’s ‘The Anatomy of Melancholy’ today at 1.45pm and again next week. Link to ‘The New Anatomy of Melancholy‘.
Continue ReadingDr Louise Joy writes about the choices facing students as they head into summer term, Times Higher Education, 1 May 2020
As university students head into the summer term, lecturer Louise Joy shares the choices that students must make around their education in a piece for Times Higher Education. https://www.timeshighereducation.com/student/blogs/choices-facing-students-they-head-summer-term#survey-answer
Continue ReadingDr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) named a New Generation Thinker by a joint committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC
Dr Diarmuid Hester (Leverhulme Early Career Fellow) has been named a New Generation Thinker by a joint committee of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the BBC. Defined as an academic who ‘brings the best of university research and scholarly ideas to a broad audience through the media and public engagement’, New Generation […]
Continue Reading‘Territories’: a new prose collection by Yvonne Salmon and James Riley
Published by Contraband Books, Territories is a collection of texts and images based on a series of site-specific expanded cinema performances staged between 2015 and 2018 by Yvonne Salmon and James Riley. Each of the texts deal with ‘occulted’ or otherwise obscured spaces. As Salmon and Riley put it in their introduction: “Working on the […]
Continue ReadingDr Kasia Boddy’s new book ‘Blooming Flowers’ published by Yale University Press, 28 April 2020
Dr Kasia Boddy’s new book ‘Blooming Flowers: A Seasonal History of Flowers and People’ is published by Yale University Press on 28 April 2020. https://yalebooks.co.uk/display.asp?k=9780300243338 “Blooming Flowers is a gorgeously lush evocation of twelve different flowers, each one steeped in its own stories, cultural associations and botanical wonder. It is not just a sunny celebration of […]
Continue Reading